Lorettonian Society

Walter Scott Wotherspoon (1941- 50) died on January 2019. He was Head Nipper and became a Prefect, Captain of the XV and was in the Hockey XI. He went on to graduate from Trinity College, Oxford, LL.B from the University of Edinburgh and LL.M in Environmental Law from the University of Aberdeen. After working for the Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa Ltd., he lectured in Law at Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology Business School. He is survived by nephews Robi...

Robert L. Martin (Hon)

Robert (Roy) Martin QC (Hon.) has passed away at the age of 69. He was a Governor of the School from 2002-12 and the first non-OL Chairman between 2007 and 2012: he was also a Trustee of the Loretto Foundation from 2002-12. As Chairman, he worked hard to modernise the Board’s processes and to broaden its diversity and effectiveness. Unsurprisingly, a more forensic approach to the scrutiny of School business was adopted through the use of a committee system. Those who served...

Avril M.K. Gordon (1946)

24th April 2019

Avril Maisie Kirk Gordon (Nippers: 1945-46) died on 24th April. 2019, at the age of 89 years As Avril Wotherspoon, sister of four Wotherspoon brothers, she went to the Nippers during the war, with Paddy Colman whose father was headmaster of the Nippers and so she was one of the first two female OLs. From Loretto she went on to Roedean. Her husband Robert (Bob) (1949), formerly Chairman of the Governors of Loretto and her brothers Iain (1943), Alistair (1944), Robin (1946)...

Alan Mackay-Smith (1961)

24th May 2019

Alan Mackay-Smith (1956-61) passed away unexpectedly on the 24th of May, 2019. He was Captain of the XV and was in the swimming team and he also played for the London Scottish Schoolboys XV. After school he joined the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank, having confirmed in the interview that he played rugby! After a year in both Germany and then Hong Kong, he returned home to join the R.A.F. but injury forced him to cut short his flying career. He then rejoined the corporate bank...

Ronald E.C. Adam (1945)

Lt Col Ronald Eric Croll Adam (1940-45) who died in August, 2018, was in the Hockey, Fives Athletics and Shooting Teams. His career in the Regular Army began in the Seaforth Highlanders and he was seconded to the Parachute Regt from 1947-51; he returned to the Seaforth Highlanders from 1951-58 and was appointed as an Instructor at Mons O.C.S. from 1959-60 before moving to the War Office (Mil. Operations) from 1960-62. He returned as Major in the Q.O. Highlanders and ret...

Oliver J. Middlemiss (1999)

14th July 2019

Oliver J. Middlemiss (1999)
14/07/2019
Oliver James Middlemiss (1994-99) died tragically on 14th July, 2019, aged 38 years. He was Head of Pinkie House and in the XV and the Hockey, Cricket and Golf teams. A contemporary wrote:“As Head of House, he walked that genius line between pupils and staff. He lifted up the vulnerable. He brought back the wayward.” A winner of the Douglas Hutchison Travel Award, he went with Geordie Willis, to Spain, to recreate the Laurie Lee book...

Alan G.D. Sutherland (1949)

27th June 2019

Alan Gordon Dunnett Sutherland (1940-49) died peacefully at home on June 27th, 2019. He was Head Nipper and in the XV. He studied at the Edinburgh College of Art and became one of the most illustrious portrait painters in Scotland, with many commissions from home and abroad, including portraits of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Sir Alec Douglas-Home which hang in the New Club: his painting of Schoolhouse from the chapel was commissioned as a leaving present for He...

Dugald L. Gardner (1942)

22nd March 2019

Professor Dugald Lindsay Gardner FRCPEd, FRCSEd,FRCPath, FRCP died on the 22nd March, 2019, aged 94 years.
His daughter Rosalind McQueen writes:
Dugald was one of his generation’s most esteemed pathologists and in retirement was the conservator of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd).
At Loretto he was a prefect and Editor of the Lorettonian. He particularly enjoyed the sciences, being introduced to microscopes by his biology teacher, D.S. Oscroft. His physc...

Gavin A. Elliot-Smith (1962)

27th February 2017

We have just learnt that Gavin died on the 27/2/2017 after a short illness.We will post an obituary later

Alexander W.B. Thomson (1953)

21st December 2018

Alexander W.B. Thomson (1953)
21/12/2018
Alexander William (Bill) Baylis Thomson (1949–53) passed away peacefully on 20th December, 2018. He was Head of School and in the XV and the Hockey XI. After graduating BA in Modern History from Brasenose College, Oxford, he served as a 2nd/Lieutenant in the 15th Scottish Parachute Regt (TA) from 1960 to 1963. He taught French and Rugby at Belmont House School before working for Shell on the Niger Delta. He then returned to Scotlan...

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